October 13, 2017

Read this, and it will give you the idea of the damage. Now add in the the fact that Obama cashiered dozens of General Officers of the Old School, replacing them with PeeCee snake-oil salesmen, and you know what Traitor Obama's Treason amounted to.

October 08, 2017

Watching the morning news in the 10am Eastern time segment on Fox. I like Maria Bartiromo, she spiels it out in plain English. Her interviews are clean and crisp and she doesn't talk over her guests like the big evening names do.

Maria was passing along some news out of Vegas. It seems that the MVPD is getting tired of their investigation into the mass-murders, and we know this because they are using a standard, but tried and true Homicide Detective's ploy to segue towards the end of their work. Problem is, they haven't established motive, so now I hear the three ugliest, most dreaded words:

"Undiagnosed mental illness"

Okay, I can hear you say it now, my peeps: "If all the leads turn up nothing, then undiagnosed mental illness must explain it, sir."

Two problems: that gives HUGE new hope to the mavens of Gun-Grabbing that they can maybe pass a bill that further restricts the rights our 2A gives us to keep and bear arms, AND it's a false statement to begin with. If you Vegas gumshoes haven't found the motive yet, could it possibly be because you haven't thought hard enough about the case, and you haven't thought hard enough because your world outlook is too restricted?

In my first instance above, I refer you to the Virginia Tech murders of a few years back. Out of that case, our ever-protective (NOT!) NRA spun their Rolodexes, made their calls and sold us the idea that OMG, un-documented Mental Illness had to be cause to restrict gun rights. We bought off on that and lost some gun rights (mostly for veterans and who gives a rip about veterans, right?) but we also lost some medical privacy, and nobody talks about that. Now comes Vegas, so we are about to be led further down the garden path into that thicket of gun-grabbing thorn-bushes. Now it's un-diagnosed Mental Illness. Think about that for a moment.

Is writing a gun law dealing with un-diagnosed Mental Illness a gun-grabber's blank check, or WHAT! How far from that Bill would it be to "2A only applies if you pass a mental-health examination"? If you said that is a small gap that can easily be overcome, take the rest of this class period off, you've passed the test.

May 25, 2017

Via the "twitterverse", I discover that United Services Automobile Association (USAA), with which Fox News' Sean Hannity has had a long-standing business relationship, as I have (mine goes back 50 years, and my dad's went back to the founding of the company almost 90 years ago), but USAA has just severed that relationship with Mr. Hannity, because he has the temerity to suggest that Mr. Seth Rich, who may have been Hillary's "Server_leaker" to WikiLeaks, wasn't simply killed during a mugging, but may have been assassinated, and if he WAS assassinated, someone of the Left would have been the hit-man.

Our favorite Marxist nemesis, George Soros, has put up over a million dollars to get Hannity's advertisers to dump him, and at least two have, "Cars dot Com" and USAA.

I have just written the following communication to USAA:

"USAA Board of Directors:

I am disappointed that USAA has chosen to dive into the unruly world of national politics with it's decision to remove it's contract with Fox News' Sean Hannity.

This removal can ONLY mean that USAA's leadership is heavily influenced by the politics of the Left, specifically Mr. George Soros, who is leading the fight against Mr. Hannity.

For your information, Mr. Soros and his henchmen are the LAST people you should agree with politically. USAA is made up of mostly military veterans, and almost all of we veterans have stood against the machinations of World Marxism a time or two. It is very distressing to us to see that our premier insurance carrier has now joined forces WITH Mr. Soros.

I seriously urge USAA's Board of Directors to immediately countermand this terrible decision. USAA doesn't have to agree with ANY politicians of ANY stripe, but if you are going to carry water for a political group, it should NEVER have been Soros and his gang of Marxist thugs. (Update: USAA now says that they DO NOT do politics!)

I fully expect that USAA will alter this VERY short-sighted decision soon, and apologize to we Mutual Members you have badly offended with your action.

MAJ George Schneider, USAFR (Ret)USAA # 077-17-95

BTW, I was going to apply for a different USAA credit card tonight, but THAT application just went into the shredder.

BTW2, As to Cars.com, they are beneath my dignity to discuss. Used-car schlock operators, to say the least about them. I have no clue why Hannity ever signed up to promote them.

UPDATE: 052717 0923 PDT: USAA knuckling under to the backlash, which my letter is a small part of. Their spinny cnx of ads on Rachael Maddow's show won't fool anyone of we conservative clients, though. This is all about the SJW-oriented Obama-Colonel now running USAA. This Obama-surrogate needs to be fired, NOW!

April 15, 2017

President Trump, can the US military quit using "joint base" as a designator for military bases?

Consider that the origin of this term was used as a political trick to try to convince the low-information masses that their Government was actually doing something about fraud, waste and abuse of funds by the DOD.

The United States still has 4 armed services, five counting the Coast Guard during wartime. Military traditions are an important part of developing morale and fighting spirit in these armed services, and use of the terms previously associated with defining the purpose of the basing locations of armed services would be an important step in re-establishing the destroyed morale of the past decades.

Several previous Presidents pandered badly to the low-information voters, convincing them that they could forego national security to get more government freebies. This was done to buy votes, and for no other reason.

The Trump Revolution was fought and won by folks who knew that National Security was more important than free telephones, so let's finish the job and restore our national armed services to their rightful place as our national heroes.

Let's get back to calling Army posts Forts or Camps; Air Force Bases by that name, and Navy and Marine Corps installations with the words "Navy" or "Marine Corps" in them.

Two hours' drive North of me lies Fort Lewis, WA, home of the 24 & 25 IDs and named for the great Army engineer Meriwether Lewis, who opened up this territory. Near the Fort is McChord Air Force Base, from which I navigated C-141 heavy jet transports 40 years ago. It still houses and operates strategic airlifters. Return it's designation as well, President Trump.

Yes, this action would be just as symbolic as the trashing of military tradition was when "joint base" came into use, but the restoration of military tradition brings with it restoration of morale and actual military VICTORY.

March 31, 2017

Your best read is published by the Washington Examiner. It has headlines and in-depth stories regarding military and State Dept issues relating to National Security. Just facts, as little partisan crap as can be put out. It also has a schedule of meetings of NatSec wallahs, so you can get ahead of the twits and Face-mongers.

October 18, 2015

So now I can scribble my sweet nothings about Saving The Culture again! Oh, goody!

Bragging Humble: Yes it is possible for a little fish in a big ocean to matter, all you have to do is migrate upstream to a smaller water body, to wit:

Gresham, Oregon. I live in the 4th largest city in Oregon, and all of the other Cities bigger than Gresham are far more liberal. Portland being the best example of a lib-town.

Gresham is over 100,000 now, but there are enough conservatives (relatively-speaking, the citizens are "conservatives") living here to actually cause the City Administration and other functionaries of Government to have to plan to accomodate our points of view.

Example: Recently, a wrong-headed school Principal sent a lad home for wearing a tee shirt depicting the "Battlefield Cross", or combination of boots, rifle and helmet that has come to symbolize a soldier who fell in battle, making the ultimate sacrifice for his country. This caused an immediate outrage in Gresham, an outrage which spurred the liberal Oregonian newspaper to opine:

Common sense deficit: The subject of firearms is a sensitive one these days, particularly in schools. Even so, the treatment an eighth-grade student in Gresham’s Dexter McCarty Middle School almost beggars belief. Alan Holmes wore a T-shirt to school last week that featured an image of a rifle. No, Holmes wasn’t wearing promotional NRA gear. On his shirt, rather, was an arrangement of helmet, boots and rifle widely used to indicate respect for fallen soldiers. Lest anyone mistake the arrangement for anything but a memorial, the shirt also read, “Standing for those who stood for us.” Holmes was told that his shirt violated the school’s dress code, The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Laura Frazier wrote. His choices: Change it or go home. He went home, and the district has since promised to review its dress code. We’ll see where that goes. The code, as Frazier reported, prohibits clothing with, among other things, “violence related references.” To cram Holmes’ shirt within this definition is a stretch, to say the least. But if a memorial arrangement that contains a rifle is too disturbing a thing for Gresham’s eighth-graders to witness, district officials might want to reconsider Gresham High School’s fight song too. It begins as follows: “March, march on down the field/ Fighting for Gresham High/We’ll back the blue and white/With the spirit of do or die.” March, fight, do or die. That’s awfully martial. And talk about “violence related references.”

Well, then. If Liberal Portland can opine, conservative Gresham might feel a tad stronger. The Gresham Outlook published my letter on the subject, a letter in which, as a Veteran, I demand redress of insults to me and all local Veterans, as well as the child directly affected. Note how the Editor dressed it up with a bold sidebar of my demands:

Folks, this business of Saving The Culture can get into some conflict. I am laying MY creds on the line here, and demanding, as a citizen, that the culture be protected from the erosion of the faceless liberal zombies. In MY day, this erosion would never have happened, because respect for veterans who fell in battle was automatic, and never questioned. Maybe we can't go all the way back to that time, but we can and MUST demand the respect due our heroes of war.

I am shortly going to have major surgery, and will miss the next meeting of the School Board, in which I would, in the normal course of events, have presented these demands in person. I am working on a surprise for the School Board, though, and my message should still get through. Let's just say that I am not the only Grumpy Major in these parts, and two others ought to be there in my stead at the meeting on November 5th. Thanks to the magic of You Tube, I might be there myself...more later when I get that video up.